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7 Essential Eclipse Plugins

Every developer has a list of his or her useful Eclipse plugins. This is my list. This list is not meant to be complete and comprehensive. It is highly biased and opinionated list. There a lot of great plugins out there but this list falls under the “must have” for me personally.

I found this plug-in to be great for quick access to a file outside of Eclipse. “This plug-in offers tight integration of system file manager (Windows Explorer, Gnome Nautilus, KDE Konqueror, Mac Finder, …) and shell (cmd.exe, Linux/Mac terminal) in Eclipse.”

Useful utility for working with Eclipse editor. AnyEdit Tools Plugin adds several context menus/actions that allow for quick text transformation and much more. Some of the features as listed on AnyEdit Tools website:

Perhaps, one of my favorite plugins. No developer should be without EclEmma. Very intuitive and easy to use EcclEmma is a great tool for checking your tests code coverage. Check your code without leaving your IDE!

If you like the convenience of having your system’s shell (Linux/Windows/Mac) within your IDE, you will like this plugin as well. As the author’s site states, “Wicked Shell, it’s not a real shell itself. Wicked Shell is an eclipse plugin which functions as mediator between a Runtime process and a SWT Text widget.” It works well enough though that you will not notice the difference.